Ontario Family Law · Case Reports
New Ontario family law decisions, summarized as they are released: the facts, the issue, the analysis, and the outcome. Written for the separating families living these questions, and for the counsel who argue them.
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60 decisionsFacts The Applicant wife and Respondent husband were married in 2002 and separated in November of 2025 after a lengthy marriage. They jointly owned the matrimonial home located ... Read more
BACKGROUND: This case dealt with whether the tort of conspiracy can apply where family members and related corporations allegedly help a spouse hide income or assets to reduce ... Read more
Background The parties met in 2013 through mutual family and friends. Around the same time, the husband purchased a home in his sole name. Shortly after the purchase, the wife ... Read more
BACKGROUND: This case dealt with the effect of a foreign divorce on a spouse’s ability to claim spousal support in Ontario. The parties were married in 2008 and ... Read more
Background The Respondent husband and Applicant wife were married in 2013 and separated in 2022. One day before the wedding, each party signed different versions of a marriage ... Read more
BACKGROUND: This case involved an appeal from a trial judge’s decision varying a previous custody and access order for two children. The parents separated in 2012 and divorced ... Read more
Background The Applicant husband and Respondent wife married in 2007 in Egypt. The Respondent is a qualified physician in Egypt although was unable to obtain the certification required ... Read more
BACKGROUND: This was a motion brought by the maternal grandparents of two children, ages 7 and 5, seeking to be added as parties to the family law proceeding ... Read more
BACKGROUND: The parties are married and separated in October 2024. They jointly own a matrimonial home in Brantford, Ontario. Since separation, the Respondent Husband has lived in the ... Read more
In Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16, the Supreme Court of Canada has created a new tort of intimate partner violence (IPV). The SCC has found that nature of coercive ... Read more
Background In this case, the parties were married in 2008 and separated in either 2018 or 2019. They had two children aged 13 and 12, and the father ... Read more
In JY v LF-T, a judge’s decision to order joint custody was appealed by the mother on the grounds that a joint custody order was inappropriate due to ... Read more
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